MODERN POLISH VERSE
Mukesh Vatsyayan
Certain and Dubious: Modern Polish Poetry: an Anthology by Zdzislaw Reszelewski Writers' Workshop, Calcutta , 1982, 155 pp., 60.00
Jan-Feb 1982, volume 6, No 4

An anthology of modern Polish poetry in English trans¬lation should appropriately be reviewed by one who knows both Polish and English. I do not know Polish, and this excludes from the scope of this review one of the important tasks of reviewing a literary work in translation. The ap¬preciation of how far the translator has succeeded in conveying the mood, music and meaning of the original to the translated version is thus inevitably absent.

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